The Potato a Practical Treatise On the Potato Its Characteristics Planting C
The Potato a Practical Treatise On the Potato Its Characteristics Planting C
Samuel Fraser
The book The Potato a Practical Treatise On the Potato Its Characteristics Planting C was written by author Samuel Fraser Here you can read free online of The Potato a Practical Treatise On the Potato Its Characteristics Planting C book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Potato a Practical Treatise On the Potato Its Characteristics Planting C a good or bad book?
What reading level is The Potato a Practical Treatise On the Potato Its Characteristics Planting C book?
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Goff, 1 of Wisconsin, planted the Burbank variety at different depths, and found that shallow planting in- sured greater germination and more tubers per hill, but that they were nearer the surface and had more ex- posed tubers. TABLE X Depth of Planting Hills Ger- minating Tubers Protruding from Soil Average Number of Tubers per Hill A verage Weight of Tubers per Hill A verage Depth to Deepest Tuber Per cent. Per cent. Pounds Inches 2 too 8. 4 6. 6 . 58 2-5 4 96 . 8 5-4 . 62 3-5 6 88 3-2 35 5-o... The Canadian Experiment Farms 3 report, as the re- sult of four years' trials, that with tubers planted i inch to 8 inches deep, where the sets were planted less than 4 inches deep, nearly all the tubers were formed between that depth and the surface, and when plant- ed deeper than 4 inches most of them formed within 4 inches of the surface. The deduction made from these results was that the potatoes developed in the surface 1 Wis. Report, 1897, p. 306. 3 Can. Exp. Farms Report, 1901, p. 117. 96 THE POTATO 4 inches of soil because it was warmer than the 3 or 4 inches lower down.
You can download books for free in various formats, such as epub, pdf, azw, mobi, txt and others on book networks site. Additionally, the entire text is available for online reading through our e-reader. Our site is not responsible for the performance of third-party products (sites).
User Reviews: